{"id":84229,"date":"2025-08-21T05:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84229\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T05:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:44:13","slug":"basketball-league-match-fixing-allegations-players-under-investigation-suspended-from-official-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84229\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball league match-fixing allegations: Players under investigation suspended from official activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: All the basketball players\u00a0who are under investigation for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/cpib-nine-arrested-match-fixing-k-star-national-basketball-league-division-1-5302101\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allegedly fixing matches<\/a> in Singapore&#8217;s\u00a0K. Star National Basketball League Division 1 competition have been suspended from official basketball activities with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>Their suspensions will remain in place until investigations into their alleged offences are completed,\u00a0Sport Singapore (SportSG) said on Thursday (Aug 21).<\/p>\n<p>Responding to queries from CNA, SportSG said that it was aware of the investigations and was &#8220;working closely with the Basketball Association of Singapore (BAS) to extend full cooperation to the authorities&#8221;. This included &#8220;providing all necessary support to assist the investigations&#8221;, it added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Match-fixing undermines the integrity of sport and goes against the fundamental values of fair play,&#8221; SportSG said. &#8220;We do not condone such behaviour and take these matters very seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) announced on Tuesday that it had arrested nine people for their suspected involvement in fixing matches in the K. Star National Basketball League Division 1 competition.<\/p>\n<p>The individuals \u2013 eight Singaporeans and one permanent resident, aged between 19 and 35 \u2013 included players from teams participating in the 2025 season of the league.<\/p>\n<p>BAS, which organises the league, said in a separate statement on Wednesday that the remaining games in the season would continue as scheduled, with the competition running from Jul 14 to Aug 30.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we do not have concrete evidence that the BAS NBL Division 1 is compromised, and in fairness to the players and teams who have trained hard for this competition, BAS will let the ongoing tournament continue as per schedule,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any officials or players under arrest or who have been arrested will be immediately suspended from all league activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The competition features 10 teams: Adroit, SBA, Tagawa, Chong Ghee, Eng Tat Hornets, SG Basketball, Siglap Basketball Club, Xin Hua, Tung San and Tong Whye.<\/p>\n<p>One of the allegedly fixed games took place on Aug 1, when Tagawa beat Tong Whye 66-43.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE: All the basketball players\u00a0who are under investigation for\u00a0allegedly fixing matches in Singapore&#8217;s\u00a0K. Star National Basketball League Division&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,63424,85,63423],"class_list":["post-84229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-cpib","tag-sports","tag-sportsg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}